Month: January 2015

State of the Union Thoughts

As I watched the State of the Union speech, I waited for almost an hour to hear the President mention some of the cybersecurity initiatives that were released last week to titillate government, businesses and consumers to believing that, for once, cybersecurity was going to…

Cyber Security and IT: Separate Them

Small and mid-size companies frequently ask how to organize their cyber security assets and responsibilities to best protect their companies. This is more a question of function than of form, and it requires companies to challenge some assumptions about their IT departments as well as…

Should I In-Source or Out-Source Cyber Security?

It is the current bane of many small and midsize businesses to determine whether to in- or out-source their cyber security measures. With all the news in 2014 regarding retail and financial hacking, (unofficially dubbed “the year of the hack”), businesses are reaching deeper into…